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"Did John Mayer write &amp;quot;Paper Doll&amp;quot; about ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift? During a performance on the TODAY show Friday, July 5, the 35-year-old singer was asked to address rumors that his new single was written in response to the country singer&amp;apos;s 2010 song, &amp;quot;Dear John.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s been some speculation from the press that it might be about someone,&amp;quot; co-host Willie Geist asked, without directly mentioning Swift&amp;apos;s name. &amp;quot;True or false?&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;Yeah, songwriters write songs because of people, about people,&amp;quot; Mayer said. &amp;quot;Anything someone else wrote is their reception of a song. I don&amp;apos;t get involved with [it]. It&amp;apos;s none of my business.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMany fans speculated that &amp;quot;Paper Doll&amp;quot; was written about Swift, 23, due to several references in the song. One clue? In the chorus, Mayer sings, &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re like 22 girls in one/ And none of them know what they&amp;apos;re running from/ Was it just too far to fall for a little paper doll?&amp;quot;\r\nSwift released a single titled &amp;quot;22&amp;quot; earlier this year, and sings in &amp;quot;Dear John,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll look back and regret how I ignored when they said run as fast as you can.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMayer previously slammed Swift, whom he dated in 2009, for reports that she wrote &amp;quot;Dear John&amp;quot; about their relationship. &amp;quot;[&amp;quot;Dear John&amp;quot; is] cheap songwriting,&amp;quot; the singer, currently dating Katy Perry, told Rolling Stone in June 2012. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, &amp;apos;Wait til he gets a load of this!&amp;apos; That&amp;apos;s bulls--t . . . It really humiliated me at a time when I&amp;apos;d already been dressed down.&amp;quot;\r\nTell Us: Do you think &amp;quot;Paper Doll&amp;quot; is about Swift?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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